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Chronicles of Japan |
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Completed eight years after the Kojiki, the Nihongi (also known as the Nihon shoki) is written in "pure Chinese" and as such is legible to anyone who can read ancient Chinese. Like the Kojiki, the Nihongi begins with chapters on the mythological Age of the Gods. Both chronicles take pains to establish the authority of the Imperial "Sun Line" and its attendant families. See, for example, pages 17-18 of Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 1 (Columbia University Press, 1958). |